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9. Pupisoma miccyla GOD WIN- AUSTEN, Land and Fresh- 

 water Moll. India, ii, 1910, p. 301, pi. 132, f. 1-16 (shell), lc, 

 Id (teeth and jaw). GUDE, Fauna British India, Moll., ii, 

 p. 38. 



"Allied to H. orcula of northeastern India, but smaller, 

 destitute of the peculiar sculpture of that species, and distin- 

 guished by its very obtuse apex and by the formation of the 

 columellar lip " (Benson). 



Godwin- Austen 's figures are copied. He writes as follows: 

 " Nearly every animal examined contained three embryonic 

 shells, some in an advanced stage of development, showing 

 the apex of the shell ; compared with the parent animal they 

 are very large, and being pale-colored were very apparent. 

 During the height of the rains they must be extremely prolific, 

 and no doubt are crowded in colonies together, as I have seen 

 some species, such as Georissa, etc., in the humid valleys of 

 the Khasi Hills. Mr. Collett took them off orange trees in 

 September, 1899, in the bungalow garden on the Binoya 

 Estate." 



5. PUPISOMA LONGSTAFFI Godwin-Austen. PL 3, fig. 11. 



"Shell imp erf orate, very globosely conoid; sculpture a 

 smooth epidermis, with very fine, somewhat distant costula- 

 tion ; color pale brown ; spire depressedly conoid, apex blunt, 

 suture impressed; whorls 3, very tumid and well rounded on 

 the periphery. Aperture nearly circular; peristome thin; 

 columellar margin thickened and slightly reflected and ex- 

 tending as a callus on to the last whorl (G.-A.). 



Ceylon: Kandy, on palm tree (Mrs. J. Longstaff). 



Pupisoma longstaffi G.-A., Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 of India, ii, pt, xi, March 1910, p. 303, pi. 132, f. 3-36. Pupi- 

 soma longstaffi G.-A., GUDE, Fauna British India, Moll., ii, 

 p. 39. 



' ' This shell is more globose than P. miccyla and not so high 

 in the spire, which tapers more rapidly. It is also costulate 

 as in the Pupisoma figured on plate 132, fig. 2, a single speci- 

 men of which was sent to me by Mr. Sykes, and cannot now 

 be found. Mrs. Longstaff writes: 'Numerous on palm, Flor- 



